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fivre

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 99

Good floppy-sized distros?

So I've unfortunately wound up in a situation where I need to boot from a floppy. However, I also need at least kernel24 and lvm2 tools. Many of the floppies appear to still be kernel20

Does anyone know of a floppy distro that is more up-to-date?

HM

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Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 34

Re: Good floppy-sized distros?

Hai,

I don't have any experience with linux floppy install, but some with installaton on low end machines (deli, dsl and puppy on a Toshiba 440cdx). These links might get you a little further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Linux
http://www.delilinux.org/forum/topic.php?id=62

Good luck and fun with the reanimation of an oldie....

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pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 1,395

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Re: Good floppy-sized distros?

Can you boot for a usb stick?

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bradbajuz

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 5

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Re: Good floppy-sized distros?

I just recently installed DSL on a Sony laptop with a broken optical disk drive but with a working floppy drive.  What I did was: extracted the DSL iso contained files to a usb flash drive, and made a boot floppy with provided img file from DSL.  I booted from the floppy and loaded DSL from the usb drive to get a live distro going and then installed DSL.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies